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- 3361: Ernesto Guevara
- ... because of asthma. As a young child, Guevara became interested in reading Marx, Engels, and Freud found in his father's library. As he grew up, he watched the Spanish refugees from the Spanish Civil War fight against the fascist dictator, Francisco Franco. Mr. Guevara was influenced by the war and refugees. He began to hate military politicians, the U.S. dollar, and parliamentary democracy. Ernesto's parents were both anti Franco activists. In Buenos Aires, Mr. Guevara went to medical school. He graduated in ... he also met Fidel Castro, and his brother Raul. In Fidel Castro, he saw a great Marxist leader that he was seeking. Guevara joined Castro followers at a farm where they were training for guerrilla war tactics. The tactics were those first used by Mao Tse-Tung. At this time, Ernesto Guevara first was nick named "Che", which is Italian for pal. The group invaded Cuba, where Che was commander ...
- 3362: Theory Of Knowledge 2
- ... portrayed. Reality is often a word that we regularly settle on in connection with History. It is our first thought; it is all the events in the past. For example we know that the Second World War ended in 1945 as in the same way we know that there were British colonies in Asia and Africa. We accept it as a fact but at the same time do we accept it at ... may have learnt? Do we view colonialism in the same perspective and whose version is more right ? For this reason we can say that History is part reality for it like everything else in the world has no one way of looking at things. We are all entitled to our own opinions. Everyone has their own so-called Map Of Reality which is influenced by status, perception, gender and everything ...
- 3363: Comparison of Animal Farm to the Russian Revolution of 1917
- Comparison of Animal Farm to the Russian Revolution of 1917 Animal Farm was published in August 1945, just near the end of World War II. It is commonly accepted as a fable describing the failures of communism. After the war, respect for communist forms of government was growing around the world. Orwell tried to show through his book that Russia was not a true Socialist country. It is in Animal Farm that Orwell’s ...
- 3364: Everyday Use
- ... implied by the taking on of American names by black slaves. To her mother, the name "Dee" is symbolic of family unity; after all, she can trace it back to the time of the Civil War. To the mother, these names are significant because they belong to particular beloved individuals (Joy in a Common Setting 1). Dee's confusion about the meaning of her heritage also emerges in her attitude toward ... s theme; in a sense, they represent the past of the women in the family. Worked on by two generations, they contain bits of fabric from even earlier eras, including a scrap of a Civil War uniform worn by Great Grandpa Ezra. The debate over how the quilts should be treated--used or hung on the wall--summarizes the black woman's dilemma about how to face the future Williams (40 ... them to everyday use would be to admit her status as a member of her old-fashioned family. Dee, like many of us, spent her whole life building an intricate image to show to the world, constantly tweaking and fixing the details, until she fit into the role of the person she wanted to be. However, it was when she ventured from the true roots of her family that she ...
- 3365: Leonardo Da Vinci
- ... Renaissance child” because of his many talents. As a boy, Leonardo was described as being handsome, strong, and agile. He had keen powers of observation, an imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him. At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany, geology, animals (specifically birds), the motion of water, and shadows (About Leonardo). At the age of 17, in about 1469, Leonardo ... he stated that he knew how to build portable bridges; that he knew the techniques of constructing bombardments and of making cannons; that he could build ships as well as armored vehicles, catapults, and other war machines; and that he could execute sculpture in marble, bronze, and clay. Thus, he entered the service of the Duke in 1482, working on Ludovico’s castle, organizing festivals, and he became recognized as an ... of the year Leonardo began to design a decoration for the Great Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio. Leonardo chose the Battle of Anghiari as the subject of the mural, a victory for Florence in a war against Pisa. He made many drawings and sketches of a cavalry battle, with tense soldiers, leaping horses and clouds of dust. In painting The Battle of Anghiari Leonardo again rejected fresco and tried an ...
- 3366: The Orgin Of Comedy
- ... distance the unpleasant.6. Humor can represent an implicit contradiction, paradox or `joke in the social structure' made explicit. The `joke' constitutes a reversal within its boundaries of the patterns of control in the real world. 7. `Canned' jokes and `situational' jokes are not entirely separate. Canned jokes are not sealed from the situation in which they are told as they always affect it and incorporate interaction into their pattern; situation ... did the actors. George Washington Dixion introduced "Coal Black Rose" (Watkins) one song "Sambo and Cuffee", (Watkins) was a comic song about a black woman and her lover. Dixion performed this act all over the world; some would argue that Dixion was the first white blackface performer to establish a broad reputation. By the 1830's, blackface performers were everywhere becoming one of the most popular attractions of the American stage ... could not comprehend nor interpret sophisticated ideas. The third and final part of the show was a slapstick plantation skit, featuring song and dance with costumed men and women dressed as slaves. After the Civil War, blackface troupes hired on free black men and women to perform with them. White audiences became upset and angry at many troupes. After the war and emancipation - during the reconstruction period constitutional amendments were ...
- 3367: Paradise Lost
- ... race." Common characteristics include The hero is a figure of heroic stature, of national or international importance, and of great historical or legendary significance; (2) The setting is vast in scope, covering great nations, the world, or the universe; (3) The action consists of deeds of great valor or requiring superhuman courage; (4) Supernatural forces--gods, angels, demons--interest themselves in the action and intervene from time to time; (5) a ... a classical hero but a classical villain: Satan is made the archetype of the sophistical rhetoric, the shallow egotism, and the destructive pride, the vices of the classical epic as well as of the classical world. In addition, he is the perversion of classical heroic virtues. He often begins by resembling a victim, sometimes even a perversion of that . . . . [He is] not a classical hero but a classical villain who unheroically ... forces (gods, angels, and demons) at work throughout the poem. One question may occur in regard to the second of these: is it valour and courage that Satan and his followers showed in fighting the War in Heaven with God? Of course, we may have a bit of trouble thinking of Satan as showing courage and valour. But it may be the words themselves and modern connotations connected with them ...
- 3368: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- ... he completed his third year as President, therefore his achievements were limited. Nevertheless, his influence was worldwide, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis may have prevented the United States from entering into another world war. Kennedy was especially admired by the younger people and he was perhaps the most popular president in history. Kennedy expressed the values of 20th century America and his presidency had an importance beyond its political ... Kennedy said. "Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generations of Americans."3 Kennedy called for "a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved."4 Kennedy’s first year in office brought him considerable success in enacting new legislation. Congress passed a major ...
- 3369: John F. Kennedy
- ... he completed his third year as President, therefore his achievements were limited. Nevertheless, his influence was worldwide, and his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis may have prevented the United States from entering into another world war. Kennedy was especially admired by the younger people and he was perhaps the most popular president in history. Kennedy expressed the values of 20th century America and his presidency had an importance beyond its political ... Kennedy said. "Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generations of Americans."3 Kennedy called for "a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved."4 Kennedy’s first year in office brought him considerable success in enacting new legislation. Congress passed a major ...
- 3370: Feudal Japan
- ... caused many riots and rebellions. The samurai were called upon to break up the turmoil. This lead to the samurai becoming an official class. The Samurai became an official class, but how did that happen? "War played a central part in the history of Japan." (Staff 1999) For the most part, the struggle was the one often repeated thoughtout history, the controlling of land. About 20% of Japan's land was ... ninjas (Japanese for stealers-in) were those who revolted against the warrior class. They left to the barren, cold and mountainous regions of Iga and Koga. There is were they trained in the arts of war. Their training is based upon a great Chinese book written by Sun Tzu called the Art of War. Over centuries they trained in every martial art known. Their main objectives were espionage and assassination by any means possible, but their training also took them to spiritual states. They trained to increase mental ...
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